This is an analysis of the poem To Miss Sarah Siddons that begins with:
Time beckons on the hours: the expiring year
Already feels old Winter's icy breath;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcecefgfghchciiiijcjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101000101 0101110101 1011110101 0101000101 1101010111 01011110101 10010100111 10010100101 1111010111 1111010101 1011011101 11111100101 1111110101 0111010011 1111011101 1101110101 1101010111 1101110111 1101010101 1101010111 11011111001 01110111011 0111000101 0111011111 10111111001 11010101011 1101111101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1243
- Average number of words per stanza: 226
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
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